Re: Changes made to flow system.js

[Ovidiu Predescu]

On Friday, Dec 6, 2002, at 02:09 US/Pacific, Michael Melhem wrote:

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:45:38PM -0800, Ovidiu Predescu wrote:

On Thursday, Dec 5, 2002, at 02:13 US/Pacific, Michael Melhem wrote:

Hmmmm..  we could end up disussing semantics forever,
but how about "sendPageAndFinish" ? Thats the only alternative i can
think of
at the moment. So one would have:

	flow()
	{
	  sendPageAndWait
	   ..
	  sendPageAndWait
	   ..
	  sendPageAndFinish
	}

"Finish" what? The problem with that is that you could still do things
after the page was sent back to the client. Advanced users might want
to use this fact to do all sorts of nasty things.

Interesting, didnt think of that. So does this mean you can send
multiple pages back to the client without client intereaction.. ?

Yes, this makes perfect sense when dealing with some asynchronous Web services. Some of the protocols out there require the server to send a quick response saying "I've received your request, I'll process it and send you the response". The actual response comes as an asynchronous request back to the client (which becomes a server while processing this "response").

In the servlet world however, as Stefano noted, this doesn't make much sense.

Cheers,
Ovidiu

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